Code
CW-CRBMM-A
Location
Carlow
Campus
Kilkenny Road
- Level Level 9
- Duration 1 year
- Credits 10
- Delivery Part-time
- Application Status Open
- Next Intake January 2025
Overview
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a process for creating and managing information on a construction project throughout its whole life cycle. It is a collaborative way of working, underpinned by the digital technologies which unlock more efficient methods of designing, creating and maintaining our assets. Properly implemented, BIM delivers projects to a higher quality and safety level.
The programme is aimed at graduates and professionals who require specialist Building Information Modelling (BIM) management skills to manage this function within a Built Environment setting. For new graduate entrants to the sector, it will provide a competitive edge as they embark on a career in this sector. For professionals who are already working in the area and who may not have such a formal qualification, it will provide a skill set to further develop their careers.
Building Information Modelling and BIM certification can offer the following benefits:
- A powerful design tool which allows clients to interact, reducing wasteful design revision.
- Better design and information co-ordination for the construction stage, this will reduce time spent in redoing work.
- Potential programme and cost savings to the client
- Significant time savings at the tender stage in evaluating contractors’ offers where a BIM model is used as a tender document.
- In procurement it offers the potential to tie down products and materials pre-award.
- BIM offers scope for a more collaborative approach where risk and waste is better managed through the model.
- A valuable information asset to manage the performance and maintenance of the completed facility, reducing whole-life costs
- Controlled environmental data
- Reduced on-site waste
- Improved safety
Delivery
Online. There is an end of module exam which will take place onsite in Carlow
BIM Technical
• The concept of BIM • Parameters and structure of the BIM model • Interaction with & interrogation of the BIM model • Derivation of
4D/5D/6D outputs • Design and construction process for BIM • BIM tools in design • Interoperability, IFCs, parametric modelling and BIM •
Building information exchange • Data sharing and design integration • BIM, energy efficiency and sustainability • Future of BIM: Beyond
Level 2, Open BIM
BIM Implementation
• Building industry challenges and opportunities • The business value of BIM and integrated design • BIM deployment strategies • Design
collaboration • Barriers to adoption • BIM for Contractors • BIM for Facilities Management • Lessons from early adoption
BIM Operational
• Introduction to important documents (EIR/BEP), BIM Execution Plan • BIM Maturity Models • Contractual & legal issues • Lean design and
construction • Integrated project delivery • Lifecycle management and BIM • Construction as a manufacturing process • Lean, agile and
flexible production systems • Generic process models • Integrating people, process and technology • Lean construction/ production •
Integrating project lifecycle
Entry Requirements
Minimum second-class Honours Degree in either civil engineering, quantity surveying, facilities management, architectural technology, construction management, building surveying, architecture, architectural science or equivalent qualification in a cognate discipline area. All applicants will be considered on a case-by-case basis. SETU Carlow reserves the right to require applicants to attend for an interview to determine their suitability for the programme.
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